The Supreme Court's Powerful New Consensus — WASHINGTON — FOR years, particularly after the 2000 election, talk about the Supreme Court has centered on its bitter 5-to-4 divisions. Yet it is worth reflecting on a remarkable achievement: The court has agreed unanimously in more than 66 percent …

Redrawn Lines Seen as No Cure in Iraq Conflict — ISTANBUL — Over the past two weeks, the specter that has haunted Iraq since its founding 93 years ago appears to have become a reality: the de facto partition of the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish cantons.

So Much for Obamacare Not Working — Have you been following the news about Obamacare? The Affordable Care Act has receded from the front page, but information about how it's going keeps coming in — and almost all the news is good. Indeed, health reform has been on a roll ever since March …

Obama Calls Boehner Lawsuit Threat a ‘Stunt’ … Despite Republican House Speaker John Boehner's threat this week to sue President Obama over his use of executive orders, the president refused to apologize for his actions during an exclusive interview with ABC News and took the Republican Party …

More in U.S. Would Decrease Immigration Than Increase — Support for increasing immigration is up, yet more would still curb it — PRINCETON, NJ — While illegal immigration typically dominates debates over immigration policy, the issue of legal immigration came to the forefront …

Secrets of the Creative Brain — A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness. — As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity …

Immigration activists to occupy House — Immigration activists plan to occupy House office buildings on Friday to protest GOP positions on illegal immigration. — United We Dream, a youth-led group that supports expanding protection for illegal immigrants, announced members would protest inside …

Yeah, We're Color-Blind Down South — Here's some unsurprising but depressing news from the Montgomery Advertiser's Mary Troyan: … The timing of Sessions' statement is interesting, coming right as conservatives next door in Mississippi and to some extent nationwide are in a full freakout mode …

Lois Lerner's E-Mails: Ruh-Roh — Lois Lerner may have lost a lot of e-mails. But she didn't lose all her e-mails; the House Ways and Means Committee is grinding through them, and the ones it has released do not shine a flattering light on Lerner's judgment: She sought an audit …

Obama: World Cup Impacting Some Foreign Policy Moves — On his way to Minnesota today, President Obama took a break from his day job to watch one of the most anticipated World Cup matches so far — the U.S. vs. Germany — and he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that the international sporting event …